{"id":12798,"date":"2021-04-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:09:00","slug":"esparza-hat-trick-guides-los-fresnos-to-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12798","title":{"rendered":"Esparza hat trick guides Los Fresnos to Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ashley-Esparza.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ashley-Esparza-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ashley-Esparza-edited.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ashley-Esparza-edited-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ashley-Esparza-edited-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo by: Andrew Cordero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By KEVIN NARRO<br>Staff Writer<br>LOS FRESNOS-It did not take long for Los Fresnos to take the reigns Saturday afternoon in front of their home crowd.<br>Junior striker Ashley Espzarza netted three goals in a dominating 6-1 win over district rival Donna North.<br>\u201cWe are feeling really good,\u201d Esparza said. \u201cThis is amazing and overall I just feel we have what it takes and we can make a long run. I can\u2019t express my gratitude, I love my team.\u201d<br>Los Fresnos will now take on Lake Travis in the Sweet 16.<br>During the regular season, Los Fresnos and Donna North split the series at a game a piece. Los Fresnos won the first meeting 2-1 while Donna North won the second meeting 4-3 in overtime.<br>\u201cWe have played each other twice, we are in the same district,\u201d said Los Fresnos coach Diego Luna. \u201cThe girls knew coming in that we had to play a perfect game, they are well coached and have excellent players. We had to come in swinging and that is exactly what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1151\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Team-pic-edited-1536x863.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lady Falcons Soccer team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KEVIN NARROStaff WriterLOS FRESNOS-It did not take long for Los Fresnos to take the reigns Saturday afternoon in front of their home crowd.Junior striker Ashley Espzarza netted three goals in a dominating 6-1 win over district rival Donna North.\u201cWe are feeling really good,\u201d Esparza said. \u201cThis is amazing and overall I just feel we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,14],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-sports","category-valley","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12803,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions\/12803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}